“Your voice is your vote”: DNC Black Caucus defends Black Lives Matter, Voting Rights Act
Healthcare, unemployment, student loans, and affordable housing affect communities of color. "We can't afford to sit it out. "
Racist murders continue in Mississippi
Although the State of Mississippi now officially honors Civil Rights leaders killed in the state, the killings continue.
Decades later, Mississippi is still burning
In 1964, the brutal slayings of three civil rights workers rocked the country. Their deaths cast a spotlight on horrifice violence and injustice.
Carrying on Muhammad Ali's fight for justice
Ali's outspokenness and activism made him a beacon for African Americans everywhere.
“Lynching” conviction of Black Lives Matter leader seen as crushing dissent
A young African American political activist is trembling today at the thought of having to face as many as four years in prison.
Two of Virginia's Congressional districts get re-drawn over GOP objections
Judges re-drew Southern Va.'s 3rd and 4th Congressional districts; GOP lawmakers had concentrated the region's African-American voters into a single district.
NYU forum explores role of communists in Civil Rights Movement
A public forum was held to uncover the buried history of communists' role in the Civil Rights Movement of the '50s and '60s
North Carolina discrimination law shows limits of corporate conscience
"The legislation hastily enacted is deplorable and discriminatory, and it runs counter to everything we stand for."
South Carolina voters want to reverse damage by GOP state government
South Carolinians desperately need better paying jobs, more accessible health care and better schools, but Governor Haley is using a $400 million surplus for tax cuts for the wealthy.
Angela and Fania Davis on the radical work of healing
Angela Davis and her sister Fania Davis were working for social justice before many of today's activists were born.
